Rhode Island Department of Education
Lesson Plan
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Lesson Title:Analyze Lab

State Standards: GLEs/GSEs

National Standards:

Context of Lesson:

This Lesson is a good chance to see how different students do at making meaning of their results. When we go through the results students will be able to say why they thought something would happen, and where they may have gone wrong. After we discuss results and misconceptions and the reason we did this lab students will write a lab report explaining their hypothesis, whether they were correct or wrong and why. Students will analyze the lab and its effectiveness .
Overview of lesson, including: where it fits in unit, what are key ideas and what will students be doing.

Opportunities to Learn:

Depth of Knowledge

Webb's DOK- Level 4 Extended Thinking
Students should have some lab back ground by now so we will see how they are able to make assumptions and work as a group in a lab situation in which data must be written down, analyzed, and correct. I will have to make sure students follow lab safety rules because students need to learn the rules in a lab so when the time comes that they could get injured in a lab they already know how to behave. This lab hopefully will show how students go about explaining what they see.

Prerequisite Knowledge

  • Students should have some knowledge of photosynthesis
  • Lab safety
  • Working in groups

Plans for Differentiating Instruction

Accommodations and modifications

Environmental factors

Students will work in groups and after each group has its data, and analysis the class will come together in rows.

Materials

  • Lab materials
  • Group results
  • Dry erase board
  • Markers
  • Lab report handout

Objectives:

  • Before class I will make sure the results are the same for each group. Results should be the same because they had the same procedure but if some groups get different results ill have all of the groups write their results on the board.
  • Discuss results and lab as a group and organize results
  • Analyze results of lab as a class. If some results are different we will have to figure out why
  • Start to write a short lab report

Instruction:

Opening:

I will look at the Flask's when I get to school to see what kind of results we had. Once attendance has been taken all groups will retrieve their experiment and head to their lab table where they need to document results and discuss them as a group. Once each groups has recorded results and discussed they will clean equipment.

Engagement:

Once everyone has cleaned and put the equipment away we will all talk about exactly what happened with their experiment. Each group should give some input. If some results are different it will give us a chance to figure out what could have gone wrong in a groups experiment, and help us deduce from what we know about photosynthesis which results were correct. I will ask different students what their hypothesis were and why they think they got the results they did.

Closure:

After we have gone through and discussed the results and answered questions that I asked the class; each student will write a short lab report which will be handed in on the following Monday. I hope that the students have enough time to complete most of the lab report in class because it will not be extremely in depth and there should be some time at the end of class.

Assessment:

  • Hypothesis
  • Lab results
  • Lab reports


Reflections

(only done after lesson is enacted)

Student Work Sample 1 – Approaching Proficiency:

Student Work Sample 2 – Proficient:

Student Work Sample 3 – Exceeds Proficiency: